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1991 motion picture by Barry Sonnenfeld

The Addams Family unit
The Addams Family.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld
Written by
  • Caroline Thompson
  • Larry Wilson
Based on Characters
by Charles Addams
Produced by Scott Rudin
Starring
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Raul Julia
  • Christopher Lloyd
Cinematography Owen Roizman
Edited by
  • Dede Allen
  • Jim Miller
Music by Marc Shaiman

Production
companies
  • Paramount Pictures[1]
  • Scott Rudin Productions[two]
Distributed past
  • Paramount Pictures (North America)[ane] [2]
  • Columbia Pictures (International)[three]

Release date
  • November 22, 1991 (1991-xi-22)

Running time

 99 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million[1]
Box role $191.5 million[4]

The Addams Family is a 1991 American supernatural black comedy film based on the characters from the cartoon created by cartoonist Charles Addams and the 1964 TV series produced past David Levy.[5] Directed by former cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld in his screen directing debut, the film stars Anjelica Huston, who was nominated for a Gilt World for her performance as Morticia Addams, Raul Julia as Gomez Addams, and Christopher Lloyd as Fester Addams. The moving picture focuses on a bizarre, macabre, aristocratic family who reconnect with what they believe to be a long-lost relative, Gomez'due south brother Fester Addams, who is actually the adopted son of a loan shark intending to swindle the Addams clan out of its vast wealth and fortune.

The film was noted for its troubled product; originally developed at Orion, the moving picture went $five million over budget due to constant rewrites throughout shooting; health problems of people involved in the filming and an overall stressful filming for Sonnenfeld himself, which acquired multiple delays. The rise in production costs from the movie'due south $25 million budget to $30 meg led Orion, financially struggling and fearful of another big-budget flop, to sell the film to Paramount, who completed the film and handled the picture show's domestic distribution, while Orion distributed the flick internationally. The film was commercially successful, making dorsum several times its product costs, and was followed by a sequel, Addams Family Values, 2 years later.

Plot [edit]

Gomez Addams laments the 25-year absence of his brother Fester, who disappeared later the two had a falling-out. Gomez'due south lawyer Tully Alford owes coin to loan shark/con creative person Abigail Craven, and notices that her adopted son Gordon closely resembles Fester. Tully proposes that Gordon pose as Fester to infiltrate the Addams household and find the hidden vault where they go along their vast riches. Tully and his wife Margaret nourish a séance at the Addams dwelling house led by Grandmama in which the family tries to contact Fester'south spirit. Gordon arrives, posing as Fester, while Abigail poses as a German psychiatrist named Dr. Greta Pinder-Schloss and tells the family unit that Fester had been lost in the Bermuda Triangle for the past 25 years until she establish him in some tuna nets.

Gomez, overjoyed to have "Fester" dorsum, takes him to the family vault to view home movies from their childhood. Gordon learns the reason for the brothers' falling-out: Gomez was jealous of Fester'south success with women, and wooed the conjoined twins Flora and Fauna Amor away from him out of envy. Gomez starts to suspect that "Fester" is an impostor when he is unable to recall important details well-nigh their past. Gordon attempts to return to the vault, merely is unable to get past a booby trap. Gomez's wife Morticia reminds "Fester" of the importance of family unit amidst the Addamses and of their vengeance against those who cross them. Fearing that the family unit is getting wise to their con, Abigail (under the guise of Dr. Pinder-Schloss) convinces Gomez that his suspicions are due to displacement.

Gordon grows closer to the Addams family, peculiarly the children Midweek and Pugsley, whom he helps to prepare a swordplay sequence for a school play. Abigail had insisted that Gordon not attend the play, but later feeling deeply saddened by this, he attends anyhow. Later the play, Dr. Pinder-Schloss insists that "Fester" must once again get out, so the Addamses throw a big party with their extended family and friends, during which Abigail plans to break into the vault. Wednesday overhears Abigail and Gordon discussing the plan, and escapes them by hiding in the family unit cemetery. Tully learns that equally the elder blood brother, Fester is the executor of the Addams estate and therefore technically owns the entire property. With aid from the Addamses' neighbour Judge George Womack, whom Gomez has repeatedly infuriated by hitting golf balls into his house, Tully procures a restraining order against the family, banning them from the estate. Gomez attempts to fight the guild in court, but Estimate Womack rules against him out of spite.

While Abigail, Gordon, and Tully try repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get past the booby trap blocking access to the vault, the Addamses are forced to move into a motel and find jobs. Morticia tries to exist a preschool teacher, Wednesday and Pugsley sell toxic lemonade, and Thing—the family unit's blithe disembodied hand—becomes a courier. Despondent, Gomez sinks into low and lethargy.

Morticia returns to the Addams home to confront Gordon and is captured by Abigail and Tully, who torture her in an attempt to learn how to access the vault. Thing observes this and informs Gomez, using Morse lawmaking, who then rushes to Morticia'due south rescue. Abigail threatens Morticia'southward life if Gomez does not surrender the family fortune. Fed upwardly with his mother'due south behavior and constant berating, Gordon turns confronting her. Using a magical book which projects its contents into reality, he unleashes a hurricane into the house, which strikes his own head with lightning and launches Tully and Abigail out of a window and into open graves dug for them by Wed and Pugsley.

The movie ends with a coda, taking identify seven months afterwards at Halloween. The family states that Gordon was really Fester all along, and that the previously made-up story about Fester being constitute in the tuna nets later beingness lost in the Bermuda Triangle is true. They further state that Fester had suffered from amnesia this entire fourth dimension, and only recovered his memories afterwards existence struck past lightning. With the family whole again every bit they play "Wake the Dead", Morticia informs Gomez that she is pregnant.

Cast [edit]

  • Anjelica Huston as Morticia Addams
  • Raul Julia as Gomez Addams
  • Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester Addams / Gordon Craven
  • Christina Ricci as Wednesday Addams
  • Jimmy Workman as Pugsley Addams
  • Judith Malina as Grandmama
  • Carel Struycken as Lurch
  • Christopher Hart as Thing
  • John Franklin as Cousin Itt
  • Elizabeth Wilson as Abigail Craven
  • Dan Hedaya as Tully Alford
  • Dana Ivey as Margaret Alford
  • Paul Bridegroom every bit Gauge George Womack
  • Mercedes McNab every bit Girl Scout
  • Sally Jessy Raphael as Herself

Barry Sonnenfeld makes an uncredited cameo as a passenger on Gomez's train.[ citation needed ]

Production [edit]

Pre-production [edit]

Scott Rudin, a evolution executive at 20th Century Fox, pitched to the studio an adaptation of Charles Addams' The Addams Family cartoons, and the studio enthusiastically agreed that the cartoons would brand a good film, and set out to buy the rights. However, Fox would ultimately non make the film, as Orion Pictures, who owned the film rights to The Addams Family, would non sell the property, as they were planning on producing a rebooted TV series. Further crucial property rights were endemic by Charles Addams' widow.[1] Another difficulty in getting the film produced was the relative obscurity of The Addams Family 1964 TV series, as compared to the ameliorate-known (due to syndication) series, The Munsters. All the same, production finally moved forward when Addams' widow sold the remaining rights to Orion, who put the picture in production with Rudin producing.[1]

Casting [edit]

Anjelica Huston said she based aspects of her performance on her friend Jerry Hall to requite the graphic symbol more warmth. Huston said she would have expected the function to go to Cher, but was a longtime fan of Morticia.[6]

Writing [edit]

Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson wrote the first draft of the screenplay, which was extensively rewritten later by other writers, including Paul Rudnick, who later wrote Addams Family Values.[ane]

In a 2012 interview, Sonnenfeld recalled that he had originally intended that information technology be unclear whether Fester really was an imposter or not, but the actors strongly opposed the notion and selected then 10-year-old Christina Ricci ("Wednesday Addams") to speak on their behalf. Ricci "gave this really impassioned plea that Fester shouldn't exist an imposter... so we ended up totally changing that plot indicate to brand the actors happy. And they were right – it was the meliorate manner to go."[7]

Special effects [edit]

Makeup and animatronic furnishings for the film were handled by Tony Gardner and his company Alterian, Inc.

Filming [edit]

Later on Tim Burton passed on directing the film because he was busy filming Batman Returns, the sequel to the 1989 film Batman, at the time, Barry Sonnenfeld took the job.[1] His first directing task subsequently previously serving as director of photography for several major films, Sonnenfeld experienced much stress during filming.[1] Well-nigh of the motion picture was shot on Stage 3/eight at the Hollywood Heart Studios in Los Angeles, the same studio where the original TV series was filmed.[viii] In the concluding three months of production, manager of photography Owen Roizman quit, and was replaced by Gale Tattersall. Filming resumed, only inside weeks Tattersall was rushed to the hospital, halting production while Sonnenfeld took over cinematography, while simultaneously directing the film.[1] Further delays occurred when a claret vessel in actor Raul Julia'due south eye outburst, leading the production to picture show effectually Julia until he recovered, and Sonnenfeld'due south wife became ill, halting product.[1]

In her 2014 memoir Scout Me, Anjelica Huston described the filming of the Addams Family every bit "long and backbreaking."[9] It was decided that the character of Morticia should take optics which slanted upward at the sides, an effect which was accomplished by attaching an elastic strap to the back of Huston's head via textile tabs glued at her temples, which pulled the corners of her optics upwards.[ix] A second strap was added to balance the appearance of the lower office of her face with the upper. The bands caused extended discomfort to Huston, and, unless she removed them at lunchtime, she would suffer severe headaches and rashes afterward in the day. Removing the bands for a break entailed hours of actress work in both removing and so re-applying her makeup and wig. On top of this, the bands would snap at the slightest turn of Huston's head, causing withal more than grueling repair time. Somewhen, she learned to pivot and turn on her feet without moving her upper torso or head.[9] According to Huston, actress Judith Malina's way of enduring being "embedded in latex for over twelve hours a day" was to "smoke an endless series of joints in her trailer throughout filming."[nine]

Another production difficulty was the financial decline of original product studio Orion Pictures, who, while having recently made the large hits The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves, had also produced several major flops which ate up the studios' funds, leading Orion to sell The Addams Family, while nonetheless in product, to Paramount Pictures.[1] In commutation, Paramount would own the domestic rights, as Orion had pre-sold the foreign rights to Columbia.[2] Role of Orion's motivation to sell the moving-picture show was that the film, originally budgeted at $25 meg, had gone $5 million over upkeep due to newly added textile as a result of the picture's numerous rewrites. With the projected release date competing with Steven Spielberg's Hook, Orion feared that The Addams Family would exist some other expensive flop, and decided to cut its losses. Ultimately, The Addams Family unit was a box-office striking. Every bit the sale occurred tardily in production, the filmmakers were unaware that Paramount had taken over production, learning of the sale from a journalist rather than either of the studios.[ane]

Mail-product [edit]

The film was further shaped by test screenings. The Mamushka sequence, a musical trip the light fantastic toe number, was significantly longer in the original cut, just was shortened following negative responses from test audiences.[1] [ten]

Music [edit]

The Addams Family unit: Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by

various artists[xi]

Released December three, 1991[12]
Genre Soundtrack[11]
Length 41:17 [13]
Label Capitol Records[eleven] [12] [13]
Producer Hummie Mann[11]
Marc Shaiman[xi]
Singles from The Addams Family Soundtrack
  1. "Addams Groove"
    Released: December 17, 1991

The Addams Family: Soundtrack was produced past Hummie Mann and Marc Shaiman.[11] Information technology was orchestrated past Hummie Isle of man and composed by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Marc Shaiman and Saxie Dowell.[eleven] Information technology was released on December 3, 1991[12] by Capitol Records.[11] [12] [13] "Addams Groove" past MC Hammer was the theme vocal for the movie and the music video was played prior to the moving picture.

Professional person ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Soundtrack.net [12]

Release [edit]

The Addams Family grossed $113,502,246 in the United states of america and $191,502,246 worldwide, turning a significant profit against the $xxx million production costs.[4]

Lawsuit [edit]

Some other obstruction in releasing the motion picture occurred when, as the studios prepared the film for release, David Levy, a producer of the original 1960s Television series, filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, claiming that the picture infringed on his property rights. The arrange was somewhen settled out of courtroom, after the film's release, due to Paramount greenlighting a sequel after the get-go film's success.[1]

Dwelling house media [edit]

In 2014, Den of Geek reported that the ownership problems surrounding the motion picture (with domestic rights being handled by Paramount and foreign rights held past Orion'due south successor-in-interest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), kept the film out of print overseas after its initial VHS release, and would not be resolved until 2013.[ane] In 1993, McDonald's sold low-toll, exclusive VHS editions of The Addams Family unit and Wayne's Globe to coincide with the theatrical releases of Addams Family Values and Wayne'south Globe ii, equally part of an exclusive distribution deal with Paramount Habitation Entertainment.[14] Paramount Home Entertainment released the film on DVD in 2000; this release contained only two trailers equally bonus features.[xv] The motion-picture show was reissued in a double characteristic with Addams Family Values in 2006.[16] On September nine, 2014, Warner Home Video released the motion-picture show on Blu-ray in the Usa;[17] Warner Bros. Dwelling Entertainment (under license from MGM) also released the film on Blu-Ray internationally. On Oct one, 2019, Paramount Pictures released a double-feature Blu-ray of The Addams Family and Addams Family unit Values,[eighteen] along with single releases of each film. In November 2021, the pic was re-released on Blu-Ray & 4K Ultra HD with an extended version of the Mamushka sequence. [19]

Reception [edit]

On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 65% based on 48 reviews, with an boilerplate rating of 5.80/10. The website's disquisitional consensus reads, "The movie is peppered with amusing sight gags and i-liners, but the disjointed script doesn't cohere into a successful whole."[20] [21] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted boilerplate score of 57 out of 100 based on xix critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the moving picture an average course of "B" on an A+ to F calibration.[23]

Roger Ebert gave the motion-picture show 2 out of iv stars, maxim it was mildly entertaining but did non add together upward to much.[24] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader chosen the moving-picture show a "collection of one-liners and not much more".[25] Variety magazine wrote, "Despite inspired casting and nifty visual trappings, the eagerly awaited Addams Family unit figures a major disappointment."[26] [27] According to the BBC, "it is the top-notch cast that elevates this film from flimsy to sheer delight."[28]

Accolades [edit]

The Addams Family unit was awarded Best Horror Film of the Year in 1991 by the Horror Hall of Fame. Carel Struycken appeared at the award ceremony to receive the award on behalf of the cast.[29] Huston was nominated for the Gilt Earth Honour for Best Actress – Motion Film Musical or Comedy for her performance as Morticia.[30] The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for achievement in costume pattern.[31] The film won a Gold Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the vocal "Addams Groove" past MC Hammer.[32] The film also won an honor for Favorite Movie at 1992 Kids' Choice Awards.

Other media [edit]

Documentary [edit]

A documentary, The Making of The Addams Family unit, was produced to promote the motion-picture show in 1991.[33]

Video game [edit]

Several video games based on the moving picture were released for diverse console, handheld, and home computer platforms.[34]

Pinball [edit]

The Addams Family was a commercial arcade pinball machine fabricated by Bally/Williams and was released in March 1992. It became the best selling pinball motorcar of all fourth dimension, with more than xx,000 units sold.[35] [36] The pinball was digitally re-released on The Pinball Arcade in February 2015 until June 2018.[37] [38]

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External links [edit]

  • The Addams Family at IMDb
  • The Addams Family at the TCM Movie Database
  • The Addams Family unit at AllMovie
  • The Addams Family at Box Office Mojo
  • Paramount Movies
  • Paramount Movies - New Double Feature

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